"To Sethe, the future was a matter of keeping the past at bay. The 'better life' she believed she and Denver were living was simply not that other one." (Beloved Chapter 3)
Dreams - By Paul Lawrence Dunbar
DREAM on, for dreams are sweet: Do not awaken!
Dream on, and at thy feet Pomegranates shall be shaken.
Who likeneth the youth Of life to morning?
'Tis like the night in truth, Rose-coloured dreams adorning.
The wind is soft above, The shadows umber.
(There is a dream called Love.) Take thou the fullest slumber!
In Lethe's soothing stream, Thy thirst thou slakest.
Sleep, sleep; 't is sweet to dream. Oh, weep when thou awakest!
Winslow Homer
1898
Oil on Canvas
37.5 cm x 54 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York Times article on the thoughts of Winslow Homer's life -
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/h/winslow_homer/index.html
"To Sethe, the future was a matter of keeping the past at bay. The 'better life' she believed she and Denver were living was simply not that other one." (Beloved Chapter 3)
Dreams - By Paul Lawrence Dunbar
DREAM on, for dreams are sweet:
Do not awaken!
Dream on, and at thy feet
Pomegranates shall be shaken.
Who likeneth the youth
Of life to morning?
'Tis like the night in truth,
Rose-coloured dreams adorning.
The wind is soft above,
The shadows umber.
(There is a dream called Love.)
Take thou the fullest slumber!
In Lethe's soothing stream,
Thy thirst thou slakest.
Sleep, sleep; 't is sweet to dream.
Oh, weep when thou awakest!
Link to artwork:
http://www.globalgallery.com/enlarge/23336/
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